Environment

Situation

Describe the logging availability and options for the Wake on LAN service.

Resolution

The Wake on LAN service outputs status information regarding Wake on LAN activity to one log file. It is not possible to increase the verbosity or location of this log file, it is however possible to disable writing to it. File logging is by default set to 'True', this behavior can be controlled by the value of 'FILE_LOGGING' within the FileLogging.properties file. Setting this value to 'False' will disable the logging.

FileLogging.properties

Netware:SYS:\wolstatus.log this information is also displayed on a separate console screen.[ZENworks installation volume]:\ZENworks\RemMgmt\server\properties\FileLogging.properties.

To obtain Wake on LAN debug information for troubleshooting purposes, modify the TracerMedia.properties file. Change the 'com.novell.utility.trace.TraceMediumConsole' property level from INFORMATION to VERBOSE as seen below:

com.novell.utility.trace.TraceMediumConsole = ON; VERBOSE

The location of the new debug logs are controlled by the value of'com.novell.utility.trace.TraceMediumFile' property within the TracerMedia.properties file.

Note: The following provides more verbose log output for me where the range is DEBUG1 to DEBUG10. To use these settings, back up the existing tracermedia.properties and tracerfilter.properties files to restore. Then make the changes below. Since this provides a great deal of output, set the files back when done testing.

Set tracermedia.properties file to DEBUG10, for example:

com.novell.utility.trace.TraceMediumConsole = ON; DEBUG10

modify tracerfilter.properties to:

*default*=DEBUG10

(The tracerfilter.properties is in the same folder as the TracerMedia.properties file.)